"concrete statistics" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to numerical facts and figures that have been verified and can be used as evidence of something. For example, "The report provided concrete statistics about the rise in global temperatures over the last century."
It unsettles the government as well, which wants concrete statistics on which to base funding decisions.
Mr. Johns set out to offer his wife, and others who shared her fear, comfort through concrete statistics.
There are few concrete statistics on the level of hate crime against the 1.2m people in Britain with a learning disability.
"One of my tasks at the primates' meeting is to share a different story about the Episcopal Church," Bishop Griswold said, "and to bolster as much as what I have to say with concrete statistics".
And while the sites monitor themselves and it is difficult to get concrete statistics about the size of the audience, some authors do believe that the me-zine is a good format in which to advertise their books and to tap an audience as a reporting resource.
Unfortunately, the White House doesn't have any concrete statistics on the number of unique streams of the speech from the new iPhone App, but says that nearly a terabyte of data was served to iPhones with the application during the event.
Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Ray Kelly, and others say that the stops are based on concrete crime statistics and nothing more.
"We need to organize farmers concrete agricultural statistics to enable us make informed decisions as we work toward eliminating hunger, extreme poverty and turn Africa into a net food exporter and move the continent to the top of the global value chain", said Christopher Kibazanga, Uganda Minister of State in charge of Agriculture.
Bush aides also believe that the issue allows them to point to concrete accomplishments and statistics in Texas that demonstrate Mr. Bush's effectiveness in a given area of public policy.
Specifics trump generalities: Concrete figures, numbers and statistics add scale or a benchmark to your opportunities and accomplishments.
The idea: "Buckle up". The reason that the ad was effective: "It violates our schema of real-life neighbourhood trips". Other things that make ideas stick: adding concrete details, dumping complicated statistics, connecting with people's emotions and telling stories.
